Women's Outerwear Sales
Job Description
We are seeking a highly motivated Director of Womens Sales to join our small but growing team and business! We are looking to hire someone with a strong track record of developing new business opportunities, maximizing trends, and exceeding sales goals; someone with a proven ability to build solid relationships, motivate a team, with recognized success in customer excellence; strong negotiation skills to achieve greater profitability; and someone with a strong background in Womens apparel and or outerwear.
Responsibilities:
· Responsible for leading all sales functions for Womens outerwear including identify and communicate opportunities to increase profitability.
· Ability to work closely with a team inclusive of sales, production, design, etc.
· Establish and cultivate professional relationships with all major department stores.
· Strategize with Sales team and President/CEO on new initiatives to drive sales and support planning objectives.
· Collaborate with design team on trends; color; silhouette; and product offerings.
· Collaborate with design and production to optimize costs and increase margins.
· Shop competition monthly
· Negotiate end of season profitability and create seasonal strategies to drive profit.
· Ad Hoc projects
Qualifications
· +5-7 years experience as a Womens Apparel and Outerwear Sales
· Excellent relationships with department stores, DMMs, and independent retailers such as: Kohls, Costco, Nordstrom, Belk, Dillards, Dicks, Proshop
· Entrepreneurial; Hands On; Creative problem solver and strategic thinker
· Strong understanding of Microsoft Office
· Excellent showroom presentation and sales skills
· Flexibility to travel as needed to support assigned accounts.
Location: NYC and Remote
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
401K
Health Insurance
PTO
